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« Prédicats interjectifs » (« verboïdes », « idéophones » et assimilés) en russe et en serbe deux langues, deux stratégies

Revue des études slaves, 2018
The article discusses the use of particular forms, ‘verbal interjections’, in Russian and Serbian. These forms fall somewhere in between the interjections and verbs and occupy a distinct place in the grammatical systems of these inflected languages.
Irina Kor Chahine, Tanja Milosavljevic
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Word formation in contemporary Liangmai: A morphological study [PDF]

, 2019
This paper attempts to discuss the different processes of word formation in contemporary Liangmai, a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language of the Kuki-Chin-Naga sub group (Bradley 1997).
Daimai, Kailadbou
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Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech

, 2013
This article examines the relation between ideophones and gestures in a corpus of everyday discourse in Siwu, a richly ideophonic language spoken in Ghana.
Dingemanse, M.
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The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution [PDF]

, 2014
Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of ...
Imai, Mutsumi, Kita, Sotaro
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 20-36, March 2024.
Abstract Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood.
Jason Danely
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Description des idéophones en tupuri

Akofena
Résumé : Les idéophones sont des mots permettant d’exprimer une idée dans une langue. Tout comme dans beaucoup de langues africaines, les idéophones sont très productifs en tupuri. Cependant, peu de travaux se sont intéressés à cette catégorie de mots. L’
BABA ATEMGA NDOUWE
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English

World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.
Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
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A Note on Setswana Onomatopoeia

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
The Setswana language, like other African languages, has a rich word class category of onomatopoeia that are derived from diverse sound sources in the environment of the speakers. Onomatopoeia are sounds imitations.
Andy Chebanne
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